Amanda Crumley - Soft Sell With Great Pipes! Mandy and the Bandits CD

Amanda Crumley is the beautiful face of a wonderful band of musicians - Mandy and the Bandits.

This talented kid has a silky voice - Amanda's " I love You Porgy" from Greshwin's opera Porgy and Bess is a heart-breakingly wonderful version: the pianist is brilliant. Click my post title and treat yourselves.

http://www.amandacrumley.com/bio.html

Vote for Mandy and the Bandits - Once Day -Anyway.

As a dedicated Hack, I love to help people I like.

I love Amanda Crumley and her band of splendid musicians and vocalists - Mandy and the Bandits.

Give Amanda and her crew a vote and help the Bandits earn a spot playing with Bela Fleck! Who's that you say? You gotta be kidding!

Hell, half of you wouldn't know the Judge with the hyphenated Irish Name on the last ballot and voted for him/her anyway.

Click my post title - and listen to two songs by Mandy and the Bandits

Hey everyone,

Wanted to thank you for all your support for my band with this contest, and let you know that the voting period has been extended 2 weeks to Nov. 15th!! Not sure why they did this, but regardless, we can still use all the help we can get!!

Click this link everyday, if you're able!

http://www.cbbfestival.com/contests/profile.php?aid=136

Make sure to verify your vote by clicking on the link sent to your email after voting! If it does not get sent to you inbox, check your junk mail, as sometimes it is getting sent there.

As a reminder, this is for a chance for Mandy & the Bandits to be considered for a performance slot at the Chicago Bluegrass and Blues Festival on Dec. 12th, to open for Bela Fleck and the Flecktones!

A tremendous THANK YOU to all of you and this is my solemn promise that this is my final email regarding this subject!!


Much love,
Amanda

myspace.com/mandyandthebandits

* If you would like to be removed from our mailing list, please let me know and thy will be done.

Catch Amanda Crumley at The Drake's Coq d'Or!

This south side kolbold was transformed into a sensitive urban sophisticate by a young girl and a guitarist at the Cog d'Or in the Drake Hotel last night. Amanda Crumley and guitarist Kregor are two young artists with a powerful understanding of artistic intent - they actually honor the songwriter.

The Beautiful Woman, who allows me to carry her books, was delighted to see her date not play with the silverware, the candle wax, or trowel handfuls of the peppery snack assortments from the bowl into his chop hole and instead morph into a Brooks Brothers jacketed gent - all due to Amanda Crumley's and John Kregor's respect for lyrics and lines of notes formed by Brazilian genius Jobin, Cole Porter, or Crumley herself.

Amanda Crumley is a soprano. She can coax a note into the empyrean without drawing attention to herself as most singers seem to do - the Jennifer Hudson 'it's all about me' quality that has destroyed the National Anthem and most liturgical music as well as the Great American Songbook.

John Kregold takes a standard solid-body Parler guitar and delicately shapes chords and notes into a framework of musical gossamer for Crumley.

Get to the Drake's Coq d' Or on Sunday nights and catch these artists.

Amanda Crumley's manner and caressing voice could make a warehouse full of Trappist Monks give a second look at their vows.

Born in Los Angeles and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Amanda grew up singing in school choirs, writing songs on piano from a young age, (forming a short-lived but prolific rock band in the 3rd grade), and doing anything musical she could get ears on. She was formally introduced to jazz when she first attended the University of Northern Colorado in Greeley, where she earned her bachelor’s degree in music education. While studying classical voice, she performed in the school’s top vocal jazz ensembles and was exposed to several master artists who came through town. Around the same time, she became captivated by Brazilian music, and has continued to cultivate her understanding of the music, the language, and immerse herself in the gorgeous sounds of the culture as much as possible. Before she finished college it became clear where her heart was and this beautiful, spontaneous element of improvisation that had always been part of her made her desire to pursue jazz a natural one.

Amanda moved to Chicago in 2003 upon receiving a scholarship to study jazz voice with Patricia Barber at the Chicago College of Performing Arts at Roosevelt University from where she now holds her Master’s degree. New to the Chicago jazz scene, she feels privileged to make music with some of the greatest musicians in the city. Having cultivated a unique repertoire of Brazilian music, jazz standards and original arrangements, Amanda can be seen at many fine venues in the Chicago area. She performs every first Friday of the month at Katerina’s in Chicago. Other venues Amanda has performed at include Pete Miller’s Steakhouse, Gigi’s Jazz and Supper Club, the Smoke Daddy, Uncommon Ground, Wise Fool’s Pub, the Heartland, and the Drake Hotel.

Click my post title and link to each of these songs by Amanda!

mp3s:

Vivo Sonhando (Jobim)
I Loves You, Porgy (Gershwin, piano arr. by Jarrett)
Retrato em branco et prieto/ Pictures in Black and White (Jobim, arr. AC)
I Didn't Mean to Turn You On (Harris/ Lewis; arr AC)


Sunday, May 10, 2009
The Coq d'Or @ the Drake Hotel w/ guitarist John Kregor
Chicago, IL 8:30 PM
140 E. Walton Ave.
18:30-12:30pm
no cover or minimum
http://www.thedrakehotel.com

Sunday, May 17, 2009
The Coq d'Or @ the Drake Hotel w/ guitarist John Kregor
Chicago, IL 8:30 PM
140 E. Walton Ave.
8:30pm-12:30am
no cover or minimum
http://www.thedrakehotel.com

Friday, May 22, 2009
Mandy & Bandit(s) @ Lizard's Liquid Lounge
Chicago, IL 6:00 PM
6-8pm
no cover + fantabulous drink specials
3058 W. Irving Park Rd.
http://www.lizardsliquidlounge.com

Amanda Crumley - From Porgy and Bess

Click my post for Amanda Crumely of Mandy and the Bandits signing I Love You Porgy from the great Gershwin opus Porgy and Bess.

Later this week I will put up a link of Amanda Crumley covering the Brazilian bosa nova genius Jobin. This kid is bagging groceries at Whole Foods on the north side and could use some of you folks to hit the Googles and see where Mandy and the Bandits are playing. Take the old man out for some music; it'll undo the wrinkles in his eatin' pants.

Have fun.

Chicago - Catch Mandy and the Bandits - A New Sound in Town!

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Samuel Johnson

On Tuesday, April 9th 2008, Music carried the day! At Fourth Presbyterian Church on Michigan Avenue, the Choir of King's -College Cambridge Directed by Stephen Cleobury voiced the best the human soul has to offer with a series of vocal presentations of choral compostions by Francis Pulenc, Brett Dean, Thomas Tomkins and other English and French composers as well as Bach. A score plus of chorister's ranging in age from the tweens to bearded 18 year olds voiced the roof off the fashionable kirk on the concrete Mag Mile.

Traditions as old the English University birthed themselves right into this goofy and quicksilver 21st Century chanted out the nonsense of an Age that honors transience and disposability; the crass and the shocking. Every person should be blessed with an event like this and reminded of just how great our species truly was meant be by it;s Creator. O Magnum Mysterium et admirabile sacramentum ut anilmalia viderent Dominum Natum!

We are way past Christmas and that is a damn shame, but last evening I was knocked out by these disciplined and talented boys from England who birthed the true genius of musicin the Fourth Presbyterian Church. The most intricate and difficult matrix of notes were born whole and silky by these little boys and young men. It concert ended much too soom.

The night was but a pup and we, ( Yes, dear Reader, this hideous troll of a man had a date with an Angel!) headed north to Katerina's, a Bistro at 1920 W. Irving Park Road to witness the epiphany of Mandy and the Bandits.

Pictured above is the beautiful and talented Ms. Amanda (Mandy) Crumley, who recently formed a band dedicated to American music. For the second time that evening, I was poleaxed with delight in the talents of young people with love and the true discipline of musicians.

Mandy and the Bandits are the best vocal and musical talent that I have witnessed in decades.

Do Click my post title for their site link that treats you to three songs.

Young Ms. Crumley has composed one of the tightest and most disciplined group of artists in the trade. Not since Poi Dog Pondering have this many talented artists brought together Jazz, Country, Bluegrass, Pop and Brazilian music to Chicago.